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YOUR HEALTH with Dr. Owens
Properly dispose
of your unused
prescription drugs
Whon doing your spring cleaning.semember to ckon out
your medicine cooinets os wel
According to the 2015 No-
tional Survey on Drug Use and
Hoolth, an estimatod &4 milion
Am led
Dr odew
M Owess
MD, MPH
ericons obuse contro
prescription drugs each yeor.
Most abused proscription
drugs cro obtainodl tom am
and trends many fmes tom
the home mecdione cabinet
Hoving unused modicine of
home oso increoses the risk of
occidenol drug poisoning especialy among childsen.
President
& CEO
RACT
R HEALTH
Misuse of prescription drugs can also lead people down a
path to henoin oddiction.That makos it evon mose critical to
properly dspose of unused dugs
you hove leno er prescriptions:
Safely dispose of the
medications using a po
scription drug dsop box
such as the one at right
Scratch out all identity
ng information on the
vial to make iuod
able to protect your
privacy
Do not Bush medicines
down the sink or tolet
unloss the label or po
tient information that
occompani
cine speciically instructs
you to do so
ed the med
drug dropbox
Intoract tor Health has cro
ated an online mop of locol prescription drug drop boes
You con dispose of your unused drugs on National Pre-
scription Drug Take Back Day. 10 a.m.2 p.m Saturday
Apri 28 or onytime yoor round. Find a prescription dnag
dhop box near you by viitingg .tontoheth.c
Tto loorn more obout National Proscription Drug Toko Bock
Day visit b
By keeping
medicines out of the hands of those who shouldn't
have them you can help make our communitios sofe
and drug-free
of Intoroct t
or Health and nAct
has served cs the
Homiton County Coonet
Cincinnat State Tochnical and Community
Collego Prosident and neHo Com-
missioner Dreelor of the
Cinoinna Health Deportment
and Medical
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